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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over 40 million Americans are of German ancestry.  Yet there's no "German American" lobby, no "German American" vote, no German neighborhoods etc.

I'm from Chicago originally, and the Irish and Poles are much more visible than those of German ancestry.  [/quote]

One word...SHAME[/quote]

Unlikely. German ancestry people were so successful and so dominant they didn't need to preserve German connections. They just lost interest in it beyond a vague idea of a mother country. My German forbears were typical. They emigrated to the US, were successful enough by the 19th century to be included in local social registers, children married people of English heritages and just became American. No one was ever shamed by their German ancestry or changed their German last names. So much of white bread Midwestern "white" culture is really German-American but it is thought of as American! Going around and trying to invent an oppressed history is both ignorant and a slap in the face of the genuinely oppressed. [/quote]

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